Knee Trembler,
Have also read your posts on the 'moving seat' thread.
When I went through the process of the stage 2 sim it was on the BAC1-11, a somewhat more harsh environment with pi$$ poor visuals, a dodgy BA SWORD flight plan that neither I nor my EZY companion could make head nor tail of and the classic BA only approach plates all seemed to point to disaster! The sim went pretty much like you detailed it, with us dutch rolling our way around the sky, missing waypoints as we struggled to get this thing under control.
At the end we did the de-brief and felt that although the flying was somewhat 'agricultural' (20 x Massey Furgusson was how I put it) we felt that we had worked well together in a difficult and foreign (he was a Cloggie
) environment. This was all taken onboard and a couple of weeks later I got the call that I was swimming in the pool.
I am now chasing the seat move left and looking forward to flying the big pig of a 380 when it comes.
However it went good luck.
W2P